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Tohuw
Tohuw

Reputation: 3780

Configuring SimpleHTTPServer to assume '.html' for suffixless URLs

How can I configure the Python module "SimpleHTTPServer" such that e.g. foo.html is opened when e.g. http://localhost:8000/foo is called?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1451

Answers (2)

Tohuw
Tohuw

Reputation: 3780

@Juan Fco. Roco's answer mostly does what I needed, but I ended up using a solution inspired by Clokep's solution for his own blog.

The most relevant part is the content of my fake_server.py, but the originating call is in my fabfile.py

fake_server.py

import os
import SimpleHTTPServer

class SuffixHandler(SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
    """
    Overrides the default request handler to assume a suffixless resource is
    actually an html page of the same name. Thus, http://localhost:8000/foo
    would find foo.html.

    Inspired by:
    https://github.com/clokep/clokep.github.io/blob/source/fake_server.py
    """
    def do_GET(self):
        path = self.translate_path(self.path)

        # If the path doesn't exist, assume it's a resource suffixed '.html'.
        if not os.path.exists(path):
            self.path = self.path + '.html'

        # Call the superclass methods to actually serve the page.
        SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.do_GET(self)

SimpleHTTPServer.test(SuffixHandler)

Upvotes: 0

Juan Fco. Roco
Juan Fco. Roco

Reputation: 1638

I don't think you can configure it to do that... the fastest way is monkeypatching:

import SimpleHTTPServer
import os

SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.translate_path = lambda self, filename: os.getcwd() + filename + ".html"


if __name__ == '__main__':
    SimpleHTTPServer.test()

You probably will break directory listing, so you should check if the path is a directory before adding .html to it.

You can check here more elaborated examples: SimpleHTTPServer add default.htm default.html to index files

Hope this helps

Upvotes: 1

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